Alan Furst Life Quotations

When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.

If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.